Is this a joke? Seriously- with 200K unique users a month, if you can't keep your head above water, you have a business problem. Not all ads are annoying. You don't need pop ups and Java ads. Throw some text links on there.
If you want to be a zillionaire, that may not work for you. But lots of sites have ads and people aren't annoyed. Those who expect ad free, cost free content are out there, but anyone with a brain understands someone has to pay the bills. And PBS fund drives? Keep in mind PBS also gets taxpayer support, and they have unobtrusive ads (This show brought to you by Archer Daniels Midland, Supermarket to the world...) We make money by selling subscriptions to a PDF edition I would never pay for any pdfs, I hate them, but thats just me.
Wow... This is actually an informative thread, because it demonstrates how politics can cause any scientific discussion to degrade into name calling. I think that we can all discuss science without attacks on people.
Living in Ohio, "THE" battleground state, I have seen many casual arguments between two people who for all intents and purposes should be friends, degrade into fistfights.
Discussing points and their merits is great, and we are all capable of that without attacks on people's regions and pronounciations.
Why discuss who can beat up whom on a discussion board? The same way that hot 18 year old girl in a chat room can be a 90 year old fat man, the geek on this board could be a 6'4" former MP who has been to war. My guess is, if we all got into a bar together, we would have fun and get along....
Biodiesel hopefully: http://biodiesel.org/
Also, keep in mind that a computer controlled vehicle will get much better mileage. Almost no one gets the mileage listed in the window on purchase. Heavy feet on the accelerator and brakes take a toll on fuel efficiency.
Well in the US:
Uniform Crime Reporting Program Releases Crime Statistics for 2002... Murders were
cleared at a rate of 64.0 percent... (www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel03/ucr2002.htm)
So it looks like the chance of getting away with murder is around 4/10...
The casinos want us to think there is as much tech as possible thwarting theives and cheats. If the theft protection was that great, they would just arrest everyone cheating and not bother to saber rattle. They want to scare off the small time amateur casino cheat....
I wonder how this will work if Santorum's prohibition on the "gov't doing things private industry can do" thingie.
All the resistance to this has come from the current broadband providers.
I don't think the only issue is using your PC at home or at starbucks etc, I think that once we blanket the country with wifi- we will see nav and entertainment systems delivered to cars etc. by wifi.
This is why I wouldn't buy sattelite radio stock- I think around the time they reach profitability, the country will be blanketed in wifi, making them irrelevant.
Couldn't the current cell phone infastructure handle nationwide wifi?
Should we screen everyone then? On man's psycopath is aanother man's genius.
Although there are psychopaths out there- I had an internship where a boss of mine spend 10 minutes screaming at me for stapling something crooked.
It is the Army Surplus store business model. Buy things for pennies on the dollar from the US gov't, and then sell it back at a big profit to the people whose taxes paid for the items in the first place.
For those of us who have jobs and don't depend on the gov't for food stamps and welfare, services like the Weather Service and Postal Service are the face of government for many. Not only would packaging the Weather Service data be a better service to the taxpayers who fund it, it would also give one of the faces of gov't a more positive look.
Private industry also desires profit... Which I believe makes the shuttle uninteresting to private industries...
Even with tourism, and a full shuttle every time, it would lose money. And those putting payloads into orbit already have cheaper to operate rockets.
The Chinese may buy the Space Shuttle infastructure to show up the US
Invasive species rarely are good for a habitat, no matter how well meaning the people who introduce them (Think Bullfrogs in Arizona) or how screwed up the policy was that allowed them in (Think Zebra Mussels in the Great Lakes.)
Animals out of their natural habitat can only lead to chaos in my (Somewhat educated, vey biased) opinion.
My other option, and I am not trying to be funny here, is to latch onto a neighbors wireless broadband... That is the ultimate in billing simplicity, no bill! Plus, savings of $40 a monthx12= almost $500 which of course, would be two months payments on basic transportation, or almost a months payment on my truck... Gosh, sometimes being honest isn't easy...
Well, in my situation I am stuck with Cable. I don't have a land line phone (just cell, like many of my generation) and to get cable internet I have to have cable tv. That is fine by me- I want cable anyway, but this would at least give me a choice. If I wanted no phone or cable, just internet, then the power options would be great.
Eye see what you mean... Will the medical students learning this have a good teacher pupil relationship?
Truth is, my understanding is that a lot of these surgeries are done with computers anyhow, just in thisb case the computer/doc-operator are far away. I am sure there will be nurses etc w/ the patient. I don't think that there will be a feature in Vista that allows us to get surgery at home.
It would be convenient however, to get a vasectomy online.
It seems like the doctors and IT pros are suffering from blind ambition.
Hopefully no one will lash out at them, and a lid will be kept on this. It will require a lot of focus to carry this out properly....
You make a strong point, however you are imposing your views on others. Many don't want to be seen in their undies. What about muslims or hasidic Jews?
And A lot of times I don't wear underwear (I am trying to keep a high sperm count, and I really enjoy the breeze on my balls.)
And what if some of these "undie" shots get out on the net? Then what?
I am not being argumentative, But people have a right to not be seen in fewer clothes than they want to be.
And also, a lot of crimes happen in the bathroom, from gay sex romps to shoplifting. A lot of merchandise is stolen in bathroom stalls- so I am curious if you think that we should moniteor those.
What about backscatter x ray machines near the door? You could check out what people have in bags and under their clothes....
And do you think permanently embedded rfid will solve the shoplifting problem once and for all?
You do have legal footing. If I have you over, and you use the loo, and look in the medicine cabinet- and you report what you find there, the cops can look.
I burglarize your home, turn on your computer, search for files, then put the computer facing the window where an illegal image can be seen plainly from the street, and a cop sees it, you are going down. Sure I may go to jail for burgulary, but you are getting busted for your crime also. You have no 4th ammendment protection from private citizens.To think otherwise would be folly...
Like the people who call teh police and say so and so stole my cocaine, and they both get arrested...
Not to be a dick, but if someone takes a computer full of illegal images to a tech and leaves it with him, they deserve to be arrested and tried for stupidity.
Ahhh... but if the plumber snoops in the basement to find out about whether his curiosity is justified, and sees a meth lab and reports that, the police can roll right on into the basement.I am concerned here- people seem to think that they have fourth ammendment rights from other citizens- you do NOT! You have them from the gov't
Example- I break in your house to steal silverware, and find 100 pot plants. I report it to the police. Yes, I am guilty of burglary, but the police would still have probable cause to search your living room!!! (aside from the fact that a burgular may not be a trustworthy informant).
You do not have any 4th ammendment rights from other citizens!!!!
That is true- of the police. It is very, very different with another private citizen. If I come over to your house for dinner, and you pass out, and I snoop through drawers and find something illegal and report it, no 4th ammendment rights were violated. Because I am not the police. And then, teh police have probable cause, based on my report, to look in the drawer.
There was a supreme court case, which applies well here- I forget the name, but the police were having building inspectors do building inspections on residences suspected of being involved in crimes. The Building inspector could poke around, then report to the police as a "reliable" witness, and then the police would have probable cause to search the house.
As I recall, this result of this case was that building inspectors now need a warrant to come on your property. But Building inspectors are Public employees, it doesn't apply to private citizens.
I know it's wrong, I am just being honest. Of course I feel dirty searching for images on someone else's machine- but I can't help it. The truth is, there is nothing like seeing the soft supple, nude body of a woman you know. It is better than playboy. You know what you are going to see in Playboy- airbrushed perfection. But it is always a surprise, a festival for the eyes, to see a lady that you know well, yet always see clothed, in the buff. An ass taut like a snare drum, but still soft to the touch. Breasts white as milk, but with rich pink nipples.... Oh man, excuse me, I need to go to to restroom.
Umm- this could save the gap a lot of money- Instead of paying security guards, I know a ton of people who would pay to be security guards. Especially at one of those Gaps by a college campus...
"Work at the gap, see a gap!!!"
C'mon, who expects their stuff to be private when they allow another to look at their box. If you take your car in to be serviced, and the service has nothing to do with opening the truck, but the auto tech opens the trunk and finds 20 Keys of Coke, you are getting busted.
If you take a book in to be rebound, and you have terrorist plans written in the margins, you are going to get reported.
It seems that computers are finally entering more common law... This isn't new territory or a new rule, just a new rule as it applies to computers.
It would be interesting to hear someone try and define "in plain view" as far as the folder structure of a machine goes.
In all honesty- every time I use someone else's box, I search for images. Doesn't everyone? I won't lie, I am hoping that they have some homemade porn on there of their wifey.
Ugh- I know- Science isn't what I read about when I was young. Although sex isn't like what I expected from reading Penthouse Forum, either, so I guess I shouldn't have gotten my hopes so high (Or low depending on your morals...)
We will get back to space- It will just take a fundamental change in attitudes in the World. Much of the space race technology led in part to the current American/British/Russian military dominance. As soon as China starts lobbing things into orbit and sending them to distant planets, Anglo-Nationalism (I know that is a contradiction because Anglos aren't a nation...) will take over and the Americans, with help from our friends the Brits and Japanese etc. will get our asses in gear on the space thing....
Wouldn't this be similar to an insurance company taking out an ad that said Geico with a phone number, but having the phone number go to another company than Geico? Or am I wrong (I am seriously wondering... Please don't be rude)
Did you know that recycled aluminum is 100% as good as brand spanking new aluminum? That recycled aluminum takes 1/6 the cost of mining borax and making the new stuff? Is that bad for the enviornment? For the economy?
You are right- recycling isn't that great, even though 99.9% of what we throw out could be recycled. The biggest thing is reduction in what we use. Aspirin in a bottle, inside a cardboard box? Why?
Do you drink water? Did you know that that the EPA identifies nonpoint-source pollution (i.e. the pollution each of us puts out, oil dripping from our motors etc.) as a much greater threat than Point-source pollution (i.e. a factory)?
Intelligent creatures don't shit in their own nests... You are right about one thing- Humans cannot destroy the Earth, it is Hubris to think so. We can make the Earth uninhabitable for Humans, and she will just expel us like we take a dump, and the Earth will go on with new, more respectful life forms.
Yeah- that would work. I have an attached garage, but it is full (If you are married, then you know that the wife's car is inside...) and a barn, but the barn is an eighth of a mile away which at 5:30 am in below freezing, blowing weather is more than I can handle.
Remote strting systems are really inexpensive compared to their benefit.
I beleive my remote start system was around 80$, allthough I installed it myself.
One of the issues with any building with a non roll up traditional garage door is that you can't open swinging doors in the snow. The snow blows, and sometimes the drifts are as high as the roof, and you just can't push the doors open with that on the other side.
Perhaps a better solution would be to move South:)
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Is this a joke? Seriously- with 200K unique users a month, if you can't keep your head above water, you have a business problem. Not all ads are annoying. You don't need pop ups and Java ads. Throw some text links on there.
If you want to be a zillionaire, that may not work for you. But lots of sites have ads and people aren't annoyed. Those who expect ad free, cost free content are out there, but anyone with a brain understands someone has to pay the bills. And PBS fund drives? Keep in mind PBS also gets taxpayer support, and they have unobtrusive ads (This show brought to you by Archer Daniels Midland, Supermarket to the world...)
We make money by selling subscriptions to a PDF edition I would never pay for any pdfs, I hate them, but thats just me.
Wow... This is actually an informative thread, because it demonstrates how politics can cause any scientific discussion to degrade into name calling. I think that we can all discuss science without attacks on people.
Living in Ohio, "THE" battleground state, I have seen many casual arguments between two people who for all intents and purposes should be friends, degrade into fistfights.
Discussing points and their merits is great, and we are all capable of that without attacks on people's regions and pronounciations.
Why discuss who can beat up whom on a discussion board? The same way that hot 18 year old girl in a chat room can be a 90 year old fat man, the geek on this board could be a 6'4" former MP who has been to war. My guess is, if we all got into a bar together, we would have fun and get along....
Biodiesel hopefully:
http://biodiesel.org/
Also, keep in mind that a computer controlled vehicle will get much better mileage. Almost no one gets the mileage listed in the window on purchase. Heavy feet on the accelerator and brakes take a toll on fuel efficiency.
Well in the US: ... Murders were
cleared at a rate of 64.0 percent...
Uniform Crime Reporting Program Releases Crime Statistics for 2002
(www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel03/ucr2002.htm)
So it looks like the chance of getting away with murder is around 4/10...
The casinos want us to think there is as much tech as possible thwarting theives and cheats. If the theft protection was that great, they would just arrest everyone cheating and not bother to saber rattle. They want to scare off the small time amateur casino cheat....
Pimp my tombstone!
I wonder how this will work if Santorum's prohibition on the "gov't doing things private industry can do" thingie.
All the resistance to this has come from the current broadband providers.
I don't think the only issue is using your PC at home or at starbucks etc, I think that once we blanket the country with wifi- we will see nav and entertainment systems delivered to cars etc. by wifi.
This is why I wouldn't buy sattelite radio stock- I think around the time they reach profitability, the country will be blanketed in wifi, making them irrelevant.
Couldn't the current cell phone infastructure handle nationwide wifi?
Should we screen everyone then? On man's psycopath is aanother man's genius.
Although there are psychopaths out there- I had an internship where a boss of mine spend 10 minutes screaming at me for stapling something crooked.
It is the Army Surplus store business model. Buy things for pennies on the dollar from the US gov't, and then sell it back at a big profit to the people whose taxes paid for the items in the first place.
For those of us who have jobs and don't depend on the gov't for food stamps and welfare, services like the Weather Service and Postal Service are the face of government for many. Not only would packaging the Weather Service data be a better service to the taxpayers who fund it, it would also give one of the faces of gov't a more positive look.
Private industry also desires profit... Which I believe makes the shuttle uninteresting to private industries...
Even with tourism, and a full shuttle every time, it would lose money. And those putting payloads into orbit already have cheaper to operate rockets.
The Chinese may buy the Space Shuttle infastructure to show up the US
Invasive species rarely are good for a habitat, no matter how well meaning the people who introduce them (Think Bullfrogs in Arizona) or how screwed up the policy was that allowed them in (Think Zebra Mussels in the Great Lakes.)
Animals out of their natural habitat can only lead to chaos in my (Somewhat educated, vey biased) opinion.
My other option, and I am not trying to be funny here, is to latch onto a neighbors wireless broadband... That is the ultimate in billing simplicity, no bill! Plus, savings of $40 a monthx12= almost $500 which of course, would be two months payments on basic transportation, or almost a months payment on my truck... Gosh, sometimes being honest isn't easy...
Well, in my situation I am stuck with Cable. I don't have a land line phone (just cell, like many of my generation) and to get cable internet I have to have cable tv. That is fine by me- I want cable anyway, but this would at least give me a choice. If I wanted no phone or cable, just internet, then the power options would be great.
Eye see what you mean... Will the medical students learning this have a good teacher pupil relationship?
Truth is, my understanding is that a lot of these surgeries are done with computers anyhow, just in thisb case the computer/doc-operator are far away. I am sure there will be nurses etc w/ the patient. I don't think that there will be a feature in Vista that allows us to get surgery at home.
It would be convenient however, to get a vasectomy online.
It seems like the doctors and IT pros are suffering from blind ambition.
Hopefully no one will lash out at them, and a lid will be kept on this. It will require a lot of focus to carry this out properly....
You may be right, but anyone who is relying on the professionalism and ethics of others to stay out of prison, is likely going to prison....
You make a strong point, however you are imposing your views on others. Many don't want to be seen in their undies. What about muslims or hasidic Jews?
And A lot of times I don't wear underwear (I am trying to keep a high sperm count, and I really enjoy the breeze on my balls.)
And what if some of these "undie" shots get out on the net? Then what?
I am not being argumentative, But people have a right to not be seen in fewer clothes than they want to be.
And also, a lot of crimes happen in the bathroom, from gay sex romps to shoplifting. A lot of merchandise is stolen in bathroom stalls- so I am curious if you think that we should moniteor those.
What about backscatter x ray machines near the door? You could check out what people have in bags and under their clothes....
And do you think permanently embedded rfid will solve the shoplifting problem once and for all?
You do have legal footing. If I have you over, and you use the loo, and look in the medicine cabinet- and you report what you find there, the cops can look.
I burglarize your home, turn on your computer, search for files, then put the computer facing the window where an illegal image can be seen plainly from the street, and a cop sees it, you are going down. Sure I may go to jail for burgulary, but you are getting busted for your crime also. You have no 4th ammendment protection from private citizens.To think otherwise would be folly...
Like the people who call teh police and say so and so stole my cocaine, and they both get arrested...
Not to be a dick, but if someone takes a computer full of illegal images to a tech and leaves it with him, they deserve to be arrested and tried for stupidity.
Ahhh... but if the plumber snoops in the basement to find out about whether his curiosity is justified, and sees a meth lab and reports that, the police can roll right on into the basement.I am concerned here- people seem to think that they have fourth ammendment rights from other citizens- you do NOT! You have them from the gov't
Example- I break in your house to steal silverware, and find 100 pot plants. I report it to the police. Yes, I am guilty of burglary, but the police would still have probable cause to search your living room!!! (aside from the fact that a burgular may not be a trustworthy informant).
You do not have any 4th ammendment rights from other citizens!!!!
That is true- of the police. It is very, very different with another private citizen. If I come over to your house for dinner, and you pass out, and I snoop through drawers and find something illegal and report it, no 4th ammendment rights were violated. Because I am not the police. And then, teh police have probable cause, based on my report, to look in the drawer.
There was a supreme court case, which applies well here- I forget the name, but the police were having building inspectors do building inspections on residences suspected of being involved in crimes. The Building inspector could poke around, then report to the police as a "reliable" witness, and then the police would have probable cause to search the house.
As I recall, this result of this case was that building inspectors now need a warrant to come on your property. But Building inspectors are Public employees, it doesn't apply to private citizens.
I know it's wrong, I am just being honest. Of course I feel dirty searching for images on someone else's machine- but I can't help it. The truth is, there is nothing like seeing the soft supple, nude body of a woman you know. It is better than playboy. You know what you are going to see in Playboy- airbrushed perfection. But it is always a surprise, a festival for the eyes, to see a lady that you know well, yet always see clothed, in the buff. An ass taut like a snare drum, but still soft to the touch. Breasts white as milk, but with rich pink nipples.... Oh man, excuse me, I need to go to to restroom.
Umm- this could save the gap a lot of money- Instead of paying security guards, I know a ton of people who would pay to be security guards. Especially at one of those Gaps by a college campus...
"Work at the gap, see a gap!!!"
C'mon, who expects their stuff to be private when they allow another to look at their box. If you take your car in to be serviced, and the service has nothing to do with opening the truck, but the auto tech opens the trunk and finds 20 Keys of Coke, you are getting busted.
If you take a book in to be rebound, and you have terrorist plans written in the margins, you are going to get reported.
It seems that computers are finally entering more common law... This isn't new territory or a new rule, just a new rule as it applies to computers.
It would be interesting to hear someone try and define "in plain view" as far as the folder structure of a machine goes.
In all honesty- every time I use someone else's box, I search for images. Doesn't everyone? I won't lie, I am hoping that they have some homemade porn on there of their wifey.
Ugh- I know- Science isn't what I read about when I was young. Although sex isn't like what I expected from reading Penthouse Forum, either, so I guess I shouldn't have gotten my hopes so high (Or low depending on your morals...)
We will get back to space- It will just take a fundamental change in attitudes in the World. Much of the space race technology led in part to the current American/British/Russian military dominance. As soon as China starts lobbing things into orbit and sending them to distant planets, Anglo-Nationalism (I know that is a contradiction because Anglos aren't a nation...) will take over and the Americans, with help from our friends the Brits and Japanese etc. will get our asses in gear on the space thing....
Wouldn't this be similar to an insurance company taking out an ad that said Geico with a phone number, but having the phone number go to another company than Geico? Or am I wrong (I am seriously wondering... Please don't be rude)
Did you know that recycled aluminum is 100% as good as brand spanking new aluminum? That recycled aluminum takes 1/6 the cost of mining borax and making the new stuff? Is that bad for the enviornment? For the economy?
You are right- recycling isn't that great, even though 99.9% of what we throw out could be recycled. The biggest thing is reduction in what we use. Aspirin in a bottle, inside a cardboard box? Why?
Do you drink water? Did you know that that the EPA identifies nonpoint-source pollution (i.e. the pollution each of us puts out, oil dripping from our motors etc.) as a much greater threat than Point-source pollution (i.e. a factory)?
Intelligent creatures don't shit in their own nests... You are right about one thing- Humans cannot destroy the Earth, it is Hubris to think so. We can make the Earth uninhabitable for Humans, and she will just expel us like we take a dump, and the Earth will go on with new, more respectful life forms.
Yeah- that would work. I have an attached garage, but it is full (If you are married, then you know that the wife's car is inside...) and a barn, but the barn is an eighth of a mile away which at 5:30 am in below freezing, blowing weather is more than I can handle. :)
Remote strting systems are really inexpensive compared to their benefit.
I beleive my remote start system was around 80$, allthough I installed it myself.
One of the issues with any building with a non roll up traditional garage door is that you can't open swinging doors in the snow. The snow blows, and sometimes the drifts are as high as the roof, and you just can't push the doors open with that on the other side.
Perhaps a better solution would be to move South